RN ED

About the role

As a Registered Nurse (RN), you will be a pivotal healthcare professional delivering compassionate, high-quality care that impacts patients' well-being and recovery. You will leverage your expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care, make critical assessments, perform skilled procedures, and meticulously implement patient care plans. You'll collaborate within an interdisciplinary team in a fast‑paced environment focused on optimal patient outcomes, adhering to department and hospital policies, safety, risk management, and regulatory standards while staying current with trends and developments. Virginia Mason Franciscan Health, with a legacy dating back to 1891, operates 10 hospitals and nearly 300 care sites across the Puget Sound region, providing a full spectrum of services from routine wellness to complex disease management in modern, well‑equipped facilities.

Responsibilities

• Administers, oversees and documents the administration of medications (e.g., topically, orally, intramuscularly, subcutaneously and intravenously) as ordered by the healthcare practitioner and in accordance with hospital policy.
• Assesses patient to include physical, psychosocial, cultural, behavioral/emotional, developmental and spiritual needs.
• Gathers data relevant for patient care.
• Implements appropriate patient interventions and evaluates outcomes.
• Plans care appropriately based on needs identified during initial and on‑going assessments.
• Provides holistic, comprehensive, and professional nursing care to patient within the scope of practice.
• Prepares patient for discharge and assists with coordinating post‑discharge needs.
• Demonstrates proper use of available communication tools/materials for effective communication and understands how the culture(s) of patient populations can affect communication, collaboration and the provision of care, treatment and services (Cultural Sensitivity and Competence).
• Demonstrates knowledge and proper skills associated with the department’s defined specific populations served (Patient Populations Served).
• Demonstrates competent professional practice and engages in opportunities for professional growth.
• Demonstrates self‑accountability to meet stated deadlines for all mandatory requirements.
• Documents care delivered and patient status utilizing the nursing process in accordance with FHS standards of care, for example, changes in patient condition, patient responses to intervention and reassessments of pertinent findings.
• Receives and assures appropriateness,